Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who's now …
Mozilla’s Jetpack builds on Firefox’s top strength
Ask people what they like most about the Firefox browser and the answer is almost unanimous: The add-ons. Though blamed …
Microsoft calls off EU antitrust hearing over IE
Microsoft said it had canceled an oral hearing set for early next month over EU antitrust allegations that it “shields” …
E-mail, collaboration will drive move to cloud
Moving e-mail and collaboration applications to the cloud will drive the first wave of adoption of cloud computing in the …
Sun to build world’s biggest App Store around Java
Sun Microsystems plans to launch an App Store that could make Apple's look smaller than a 7-Eleven by comparison. The …
Yahoo, Alibaba relationship frays under Bartz
Relations between Yahoo and Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo's China operations, have soured since Carol Bartz took the helm of …
The shape of the coming netbook revolution
The netbook you know today gives just a taste of what's to come. Cheap, portable, and packed with features that …
Nokia Readies Its Own App Store with 20,000 Titles
The world's largest handset manufacturer, Nokia, is prepping its long-awaited application store for mobile devices at the end of May. …
Android someday will outdistance the iPhone
The number of mobile phones using the Android operating system will eventually be huge, even if the number of Android …
Groups rip secrecy over IP protection talks
The secrecy surrounding an anticounterfeiting trade agreement that's being negotiated by several countries, including the U.S., is heightening concerns about …
Five ways Exchange 2010 will be faster, more scalable
Microsoft Corp. said that its upcoming Exchange Server 2010 software will be able to read and write e-mails to disk …
Mozilla, Opera blast Microsoft over IE8 upgrade practice
Browser makers Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft of force feeding Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to users with Windows Update and …
Web 2.0 leaders struggle to maintain their top spots
The view from the top of the high-tech business world may be nice, but companies just need to look at …
15 great uses for GPS on the iPhone
Travelers used to need a guidebook, map, local newspaper, and much more just to cover the basics of getting around …
Dell netbook rumor prompts questions about Android
Reports that Dell Inc. might use Google Inc.'s Android operating system in a netbook raises questions about what the device …
Mozilla, Opera blast Microsoft over IE8 upgrade practice
Browser makers Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft of force feeding Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to users with Windows Update and …
Threading to boost Firefox on multi-core chips
Mozilla's developers have announced plans to add application multi-threading to Firefox over the next two years, a feature already partially …
IE on pace to drop below 50% share by 2011
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), which again fell to a new market share low last month, is on a pace of …
IBM, Microsoft quibble over Office 2007’s new ODF support
In the latest bout of sniping in the long-running feud over document format standards, IBM this week claimed that Microsoft …
Microsoft to forbid VoIP, rival stores at mobile market
Voice-over-IP applications will be forbidden from Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store, along with programs that are larger than 10MB …